High Point Fair Opens Its 25th Year With Rides and Exhibits
The High Point Fair begins its 25th edition with 35 midway rides and shows provided by Penn Premier Shows. The exhibit hall features 31 booths of farm products sewing canning baking and flowers. Livestock includes Guernsey and Ayrshire breeds with judging by Miss Rachel Teague Miss Charlotte Bridwell and Miss Mary Ralls plus county agents J. E. Foil and T. M. Haizlip. The fair runs through Saturday.
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Penn
Harlem
Guernsey
Ayrshire
Rachel Teague
Yadkinville
Charlotte Bridwell
Lions Launch State White Cane Drive Campaign
Lions start a state wide White Cane Drive from Sept 22 to Oct 5 to raise 40 000 for services to more than 11 000 blind people District 31 D director Dr Frank Walker lists Guilford Randolph Forsyth Rockingham Stokes Lurry Yadkin and Davie counties and notes a 10 000 goal with no paid staff voluntary only local effort directs services to the blind.
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the Lions
Frank Walker
Yadkinville
Guilford
Randolph
Forsyth
Rockingham
Stokes
Lurry
Yadkin
Davie
Twenty Two Finalists Picked In Tar Heel Talent Auditions
North Carolina talent search narrows 32 contestants to 22 finalists for a senior high variety show. Finalists include Fay Spencer Bibb Swain Carolyn Livengood Jo Barton Jackie Joyner Peggy Cramer and many others. Judges, 21 specialists, will select the best performer for the show.
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Tina Smith
Tony Tyndall
Aberdeen
Man
Tar Heel
Far East Command
Fay Spencer
Bibb Swain
Carolyn Livengood
Jo Barton
Jackie Joyner
Peggy Cramer
Mrs
Dot Pickett
Shirley Frye
Walter Johnson
Eva Mae Foxworth
Jimmy Mondakos
Sandra Graft
Larry Vass
Sue Ellen McCuiston
Larry Weavil
Judy Turner
Bill Seger
Brenda Sweezy
Jimmy Jimmy Vinson
Jimmy Martin
Bobby Ed Dunson
Bill Vinson
Sarah Stanford
Linda Kinley
Lana Jones
Gale Teague
Susan Horney
Marsha Potter
June Mills
Sydney Allen
Toby Hicks
Jim Vinson
Crazy Cats
Darrell Byerly
C. G. Mackintosh
Miss Devers Joins High Point Family Service Bureau
Miss Blanche S. Devers of Towson Md joins High Point Family Service Bureau as a caseworker replacing Mrs P F DeSaix who resigned Aug 31. Devers holds A B from Goucher and a master’s from UNC Chapel Hill. she resides in High Point’s Ecker Apartments and will provide counseling on family and personal adjustment.
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Blanche S. Devers
Towson
High Point
Family Service Bureau
Miss Devers
Fred L. Swartzberg
Goucher College
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
School of Social Work
Uni
P. F. DeSaix
Ecker
United Fund
Merchants Sponsor Farmers Day Exhibit and Prize Plan
The county merchants announce a Farmers Day event with 104 prizes valued at 1120 in merchandise certificates. A judged exhibition opens at the S Main Street building formerly Efird's, with divisions for men women boys and girls and judged by county farm agents and local volunteers.
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S. Main Street
Efird’s
Clyde Campbell
The
Merchants Association
High Point
Campbell
Virginia Man Held On Traffic Charges In Newport News
Curtis A. Freelman, 30, of Virginia and former High Point resident, is held on counts of driving with revoked license and using a fictitious license with bonds of 500 each and trial set for October 7. He also faced a worthless check warrant.
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Newport News
High Point
Curtis A. Freelman
James Edward Trivette
Willowbrook Street
Trivette
S. B. Hartley
Samie M. Kelso
Taylor Street
Running Plan And City Mayors In High Point
Forrest Cates notes Civil Defense officials plan a running plan for High Point as Col. Whatley and Maj. McKinne discuss attack readiness. High Point, Greensboro seen as potential targets. Also profiles Fire Chief Shelton's year-long cabinet refreshment and a dead black snake near Virginia Jackson’s car. Mayor Jess Washburn attends a New York mayor’s conference and is named among 18 handsome mayors.
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Civil Defense
Col
W. D. Whatley
Maj
Collin McKinne
High Point
Greensboro
Virginia
Jess Washburn
New York
Kizzoner
Kizzener
Washburn
Fire damages garage apartment in afternoon blaze
Firemen report a boiling pot caused an oil stove flare up igniting a garage apartment. Owner Mrs Drew Preddy and occupant Sam Wilson were listed. Building and contents damages noted but loss estimate unavailable. Alarm received at 2 33 p m.
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Drew Preddy
Sam Wilson
Nurses Pledge Aid For Flu Vaccinations
The High Point Private Duty Nurses Assn led by Virginia Southerland offers free nursing help in industrial clinics for Asian flu shots. Doctors will administer vaccines, purchased by industries, with each $1 per shot paid by industry funding a medical library at High Point Memorial Hospital. Dr. Glenn Perry noted many industries applied to join the mass inoculation plan, though vaccine supply remains limited.
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High Point
Glenn Perry
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Broadway
Kula
Janet Teaguge
Alex Ia
Raymond E. Anthony
Jarvis
Robbins
Saubas Samed
Enterprise
Betty Leonard
RS Cure
Gee
Wisscate Cholees
Joe Oe
South Sea Isles
Blanche Devers
Family Service
Merchants
Moses Crutchfield
Clem A. Wright
S. B. Brandon
Stokesdale
Sam J. Young
Brandon
John Henry Countee
Vall Street
Walter Lee Caldwell
Cross Street
Forrest Cates
Tion
Col. Whatley
Carl Shelton
Shelton
Virginia Jackson
John Southern
Knox Bridge
Janes Teasued
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